Lightning Talk: That’s a WordPress site???

WordPress is nice and all, but it’s really just blogging software. You know  it right away when you see a WordPress “site.” Right? Wrong! According to a study completed for last year’s DrupalCon, WordPress powers some 8.5% of sampled websites all across the web. They’re not just blogs, and they don’t all “look like a WordPress site.”

Let’s take a 5 minute walk across WordPress-powered websites of all shapes and sizes across the web. If you didn’t believe WordPress was one  of the most versatile, customizable content management systems when you walked into the meet up, you’ll be a believer by the time I’m done.

Jake Goldman is Director of Client Services at local web-dev shop C. Murray Consulting and one of the organizers of the Providence WordPress Meetup. Between his 11 WordPress plug-ins, his articles for Smashing Magazine, the dozens of WordPress sites he has developed and supported, and the WordCamps around the country he speaks at, he’s starting to wonder if his head is a bit too deep in WordPress land…

This lightning talk will be presented at the July 27 meet up.